This course will provide students with basic laboratory skills including; pipetting; molecular techniques; basic tissue culture for downstream applications; simple cellular assays and molecular pathology. Students will also be provided with training in collating results, statistics, data interpretation and designing a research project.

This course consists of lectures and practical lab sessions which will take place in semester 2.

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Lab report (1500 words approx.) - 70%

Groupwork - 20%

Presentation - 10%

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

The aim of this course is to:

■ Expose students to and provide them with the opportunity to develop generic laboratory skills

■ Help students design and prepare for their research project

■ Provide students with the opportunity to perform experiments and subsequently analyse, interpret and present the data generated.

■ Synthesise data and formulate a scientific lab report.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Critically evaluate the basis of laboratory protocols for research methods. 

2. Gain experience in fundamentals of molecular lab skills.

3. Critically discuss a workflow design for generating a sequencing data set.

4. Critically discuss and evaluate the results of sequencing data sets.